You can measure just as accurately with the imperial system. Just need to use fractions of inches (1/8, 1/16, 1/32 etc.) The whole system is just a ploy to confuse people who can't work it out. It's great to confuse people with talk of inches, feet, yards, furlongs, miles, ounces, pounds, stones, hundredweights etc. It's a shame we decimalised our money. That would have been the icing on the cake.

Im not arguing that, its just a little weird that countries who use imperial units havent universally made a change since its less useful. Youd think with all the global trading in the world, converting between units must result in parts that wont fit.

If somebody wants to post it in feet they should be able to without getting replies like this back. We don't use your measurement here so it makes sense for Americans to convert it to feet. The metric system is for when I'm in the lab as far as I'm concerned.